The infamous Thieves Armor bug...

I sold my thieves armor early in the game, and now i cant upgrade to Guild Master hense no trophy (it was my last for platinum)

Then is spend nearly 25 hours again playing al the thieves mission and the boring ones for Vex and Delvin, didnt sell my thieves armor but still i can't upgrade to guild master!

Either Karlia dissapears, people stop talking me or the game freezes a lot! Not to start about the lag issue on the PS3!

I know i'm not the only one with this problem, a lot of people sold their thieves armor and now they are all stuck!

I just thought that I would put up those questline bugs that I have run across:

-I cannot work on the mage's guild librarian quest lines because the first one (obtaining the OLD WAYS) cannot be completed. Essentially, I went to the cave with all of the silver hands for the companions questline. Killed everyone and looted everything, including the book. Then I got the quest to retrieve the book and it just points to the empty chest, while the old ways is in my inventory. The librarian won't give me any more quests.

-After finding the flute, lute, and drum for the bard's college, I returned the items to their owners and got the level-ups and the quest was marked as completed. However, all three items are still in my inventory and cannot be removed.



That's pretty much it. I'll add more later as I come across them.

LEVEL: 63
Time: 150ish hours.
Save File: 15 MB...

I just ran across a bit of an odd bug. I just found Nilheim (NNW of Treva's Watch) and none of the guards were hostile to me, but as soon as I dismounted Shadowmere, he started attacking them. I engaged in the attack, as I assumed they were hostiles, but the gave me the "I'm on your side" line. Remounted and rode off a bit, swam back and zero hostility.


This thread is getting to be more of a pain to find. I should just start making a thread about every random bug I find like everyone else...

Another glitch that I don't see here,
For the A Night to Remember Daedric Quest with Sanguine

*Possible Spoiler*
When you finally beat the one dungeon and you have the opportunity to go into the Misty Grove, I found that once you complete the quest and get the staff, when you go back to the dungeon the portal is still there and Sanguine is walking around. If you reenter the portal you cannot leave and have to reload. If you enter the room right under the portal you are transported to Mist Grove and have to restart. I really want to grab whatever is in the strongbox... A little odd to see Sanguine walking around.

I know others have experienced the problems with the Bards instruments, but I feel it needs repeating as they take up a bit of space inventory wise, but it svcks when you cannot get rid of glitched quest items... the Bards instruments seem to be the most popular.

Thread sticky please !

My character started getting stuck on random junk when walking through tunnels , then when I look down to see whats going on , my character and all the stuff I'm stuck on explode forward about 15 feet . This happened 3 times yesterday , patch 1.02 , not sure if I want 1.03 yet , since everything is going relatively smooth right now .

Joining the Stormcloaks.

Seasons Unending.

Neither of these two quests can be completed. It's especially annoying since Seasons Unending has to do with the main quest.

Joining the Stormcloaks: I've killed the Ice Wraith and I'm now supposed to talk Galmar Stone-Fist. I can't do that. I think this quest is conflicting with Seasons Unending.

Seasons Unending: I can't talk to Ulfrich to convince him to to go that meeting at High Hrothgar. He expects me to talk to Galmar about retrieving a "jagged crown" from some cave. I can't talk to Galmar at all. When I try, all he does is say that he can't believe I convinced Ulfrich to go to the meeting.

Deleted game data and updates before installing 1.3, but not my game saves. Game has frozen 6 times since. It had frozen 2 or 3 times from 11/14 - install of 1.3 last night.

I just experienced this one...

How big is your save? If it's huge, then it's probably just reached 'critical mass'. If not, it's probably got some kind of glitch/corruption saved in.

The only way to know for sure is to start a fresh character and test the stability with it. You can keep your old one too, after all.

FYI, my game never crashes - I get 'the lag' and the occasional long pause... so I don't think the patch is to blame as such.

1. X and/or Y axis getting stuck for no apparent reason when exploring outdoors. Leads to instant and unvavoidable suicide when it happens near cliffs and waterfalls or crashing soon after if it just stops by itself. I know it's not an issue with my controller because I have 3 that I rotate and my SO doesn't have this problem in his game. Temp solution: None.
2. Autosave leads immediately to crashing and losing data. I looked in my save game data in HUD and found at least 10 corrupted files which I assume are all the times the game crashed right after saving and I lost my progress. Temp solution: Turn off all autosaves.
3. Bookshelves that used to work before patch 1.3 are now broken permanently. Temp solotuion; None.
4. Random crashes all the time before and after patch. My save file is only about 6k, SO's is over 11k and he has only had 1 crash to date. Temp solution: None.
5. Filled soul gems stack with empty ones. I'm not sure how to adequately describe this bug because I'm not sure where things are going wrong, so here is my experience;

I have a stack of 24 filled Petty Soul gems.
Scenario 1: I take it to the Enchanter's Table and can enchant 24 items.
Scenario 2: I take it to a container and drop one gem at a time. I end up with 10 filled gems and 14 empty ones.

I can't say for certain if the bug is just that they're stacking incorrectly and allowing me to cheat at the Table or if the game is cheating me out of earned gems when I drop them. Temp solution: Only carry as many soul gems as I am going to fill immediately. Keep filled and empty gems in separate containers and never drop in stacks.

Have to say the lag has been atrocious tonight. Had to reboot about every 30 mins!

Don't know if it's a 1.3 patch thing or the fact I have reached 14Mb saves.

Worst bug yet! After you serve your time in jail i.e sleeping, you are set free but will overburdened, even if you weren't when you were put in jail. Basically the game is adding weight without adding any additional items. I have tested by dropping every item in my inventory, my character is naked, and going to jail. After I serve my time I come out weighing 470, even though I can't possibly weigh any more than about 30 (some "quest items" couldn't be dropped). PLEASE FIX THIS!! The game is completely unplayable, especially for me because I didn't save prior to going to jail. All i can do now is walk around very slowly and punch stuff. This is ridiculous!

Also lesser bugs I have discovered are: Quest items cannot be removed from inventory even after the quest is complete. The Elder Scroll weighs 20 and I would prefer to not have to carry it. The other bug i have notice since dl 1.3 on my ps3 is the guy near the Whiterun Stables keeps multiplying. There are three of him now, all standing together. Not a serious glitch like the prison one I stated above, but a little strange none the less.

But can Bethesda please fix the Prison Bug? I basically can't play until you do.

An Update: After getting out of prison and dropping every item, I can finally fast travel. I fast travelled to Riften and upon arrival I am now overburdened again!! Not only has my weight mysteriously gone up but my carrying limit (strength) has gone down. In Whiterun I could carry 420 and after fast traveling I can now only carry 370. This makes no sense and in addition my weight has gone up to 428. When I left Whiterun is was 360 (of course in reality it was actually about 30 but the bug caused it read 360). It seems weight keeps increasing and strength decreasing for no reason. This happens after serving time in jail and after fast travelling (perhaps only fast travelling after serving time in jail?). Is anyone else having this issue?

The Misc Quest: Locate the Assassin of Old quest is bugged for me, The corpse does not appear under any circumstance.. only the chest

Just encountered the Olda quest bug...mead is under the crate and cannot be picked up. So this mission is undoable also.

Missions stuck in my Journal though completed:

Assist the people of Hoofinger
Find Rjorn's drum (also stuck in my inventory though I returned it for it's reward already)
Find Finn's Flute (same issue as above)
Collect Bounty from Skold
Investigate the Bards College

Missions I can't complete due to bugs:

Olda's Mead
Disrupt the Skooma Operation
Forbidden Legend

Small percentage compared to the ones I have completed I guess, but annoying.

All of my broken bookselves are still broken after 1.3.

Dude from Bards College still carrying his torch everywhere, day or night.
Can't marry muiri from markarth.
Already collected bounty from Skald but it remains in my misc quests.
Still lagging in all big cities
Looks like water is turned way down. Shows up as matte black blob from not too far away, then pops into detail when you're right on top of it... But sometimes not at all.

As I understand, that's normal. The patch can't fix already broken saves. (If that makes sense)
If you start a new game then they will work. Or they sometimes will work. You have to try and see.

I had read that a couple of people's broken bookshelves were working now, figured I would mention that I haven't seen the same.

I'm like 150 hours into a beast assassin who has done everything except for the main quest and the civil war quests. I'm going to wait until all of issues are fixed before I start a new character. The Bookcase deal isn't terrible for me, it's just holding my Oghma Infinium hostage. I'm level 70 and upping my level is a pretty serious grind. Especially because I'm a stealth character and I don't get hurt (Restoration... the High Hothgar exploit doesn't seem to work for me), I don't block and I don't wear heavy armor. I'm going to have to change my play style for the sake of leveling... not a tragedy, but not what I really want to do... especially with only the MQ and civil war quests left.

Fresh install of the newest patch (deleted everything, including saves then reinstalled) and weapon racks in Whiterun won't let me activate them (upstairs or downstairs). They were fine before the patches kicked in. Not a huge deal for me but annoying all the same.

You do know that going to jail randomly reduces some of your skills right?

I'm sure some of these have been mentioned but these are the bugs happening with my game. I just wanted to make sure that Bethesda sees them so hopefully they get fixed someday! I absolutely love Skyrim so there's no way I'm going to stop playing but I will admit that I'm getting a little frustrated . I play on PS3, and have all the patches that have become available.

(1) Some bookcases don't activate, and a few others let me put too many books on them without knowing it, so the books all disappeared and the bookshelf can no longer be activated

(2) Weapon racks are often not functioning, and when they are if I put a weapon on them and then take it off, I can never put a new weapon on them again

(3) I am stuck with the instrument quest items for the Bard's College because I found some of them before receiving the quest and the quest-giver does not realize they're in my inventory. Ever.

(4) I cannot become the Thane of Riften because I visited my newly purchased home before visiting the Jarl to get my title. The room for my follower is just empty.

(5) Mannequins move around my house at random - I often come in to find them in strange locations throughout the house.

(6) When I put armor on mannequins the area of the body where the armor should be just goes invisible. I can get the items back from them though, which is nice.

(7) I had a follower with me (Faendal, the archer elf from Riverwood) and we were going along just fine doing quests. Then I tried to fast travel and it said I could not with enemies nearby. I ran all over the place and continued to have this problem even though there were no enemies nearby. I clicked on Faendal to speak to him and suddenly the screen said "This follower is no longer in your service" and he started to attack me. I guess he was the enemy. I reloaded a few saves back when we were at home and he still did this when I clicked on him. I had to load to about three hours previously before he was acting properly again.

(8) Skyrim doesn't have any options for resizing the screen. This is an issue for me because no matter what changes I make to the PlayStation settings itself, this particular game cuts off the left side of the screen entirely. I can only read about half of the words in the menu. We've been playing anyway but its a little frustrating.

(9) When buying the Windhelm home, if you don't purchase the "clean up that murderer's mess" option for the home decorations before purchasing the other decorations then your home is permanently stuck with blood all over the floor, dead body parts, and an alter for sacrificing people. I had to reload and do it all again.

(10) The game often freezes when loading and I've got to restart the PlayStation

Thats all I can think of right now, though I'm sure I'm missing some of them!

Thanks!

I found an odd bug, i climb mountains all the time and when i was on one found an odd flat slopped area walked across it and when the mountain texture resumed truned around and was surprised when i had just passed throug a peak of a mountain, but could not return through it, this is just another on top of the already mentioned bugs.

just installed the new patch and when i fast travel my horse goes flying across the land....and dies. if it doesn't die it just runs away, it never stays. i haven't stolen any horses and bought this horse. this is something new i have found and every other dragon i don't receive the soul. on my old save and the bookcase is still broken but i can live with it.

Something new happened today:
Did Good Intentions quest today and left The Midden under the Mages College the back way(which was a mistake since it took 4 minutes to walk back to Winterhold)
on the way I thought the game crashed but it didn't. However about half way across the bridge to the college, wouldn't you know it, a blood dragon in the college courtyard.
I killed the dragon and absorbed soul, everything went fine. I went to continue the quest but the door to the hall of countenance was stuck in the "open" position. I went inside the Midden to see if it would fix it but it didn't. I had to reload from save to get it fixed, and didn't go the long way back this time. No dragon.
btw
I am running 1.3

I have a new one too:

I was playing the Nchuand-Zel: The Lost Expedition quest and for some reason I received two of each quest item (i.e. Alethius' Notes, Erj's Journal, etc) . It didn't do anything to hurt the game but it was odd.